The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The banquet hall smelled of roasted pheasant and old dust, a cloying mixture that hung heavy in the air like a shroud. Arthur Penhaligon stood at the edge of the mahogany table, his fingers resting on the polished surface, feeling the grain of the wood beneath his nails as if it were the skin of a living thing. He was a man who had spent forty years in the silent company of books, a scholar of...

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